It’s really been a tough month. Not a lot going on around here. We started this month feeling very sorry for ourselves due to the lousy weather and Evelyn’s passing in February. And we’ve just gone from no moisture at all this year (a little lie) to an inch last week while the rest of the state was dealing with tornado’s.

I’ve been able to get flowers planted and just today I got the tomato’s planted. I’m not going for the big tomato’s this year but for the small and medium size. I don’t like to put stuff(spray them that is)  on the tomato’s as I don’t like the eating of stuff not really made for man to eat. The large tomatoes spend a lot of time on the plant so they are subject to birds and squirrels eating them or at least part of them. Anyway I’ll go back to the old days of the cherry and medium size plants this year. Azaleas haven’t really grown much this past year and these are two year old plants. The geraniums are those that I’ll take to Marion this Memorial Day.

We also lost a big peach tree this past winter. We had to take it down a couple of weeks ago. We still have a couple of Apple trees and one other peach tree which is only a couple of years old. Hopefully we’ll get a few peaches this year.

I did have to mow again this morning and I did the almost daily cleanup of the driveway after the winds of yesterday. We had 25 to 35 MPH winds yesterday but the winds are only 15 to 20 MPH today, so this is the reason I could get a little done today. Tomorrow we are to have storms again. We’re just on the edge of the storm area but you can tell everyone is ready. The weather guys are really happy today because like last Thursday they will be on the tube from 3 PM until 11 PM tomorrow.

The picture below is of a robins nest on the front porch. Now this is a master piece of work by the mommy and daddy birds. Plus there are two blue eggs. We decided to let them hatch so we will have something to show the grand kids. I’ll also show some of the pictures I took of some of the flowers in the yard.

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